A Diverse View of Science to Catalyse Change

César A Urbina-Blanco; Safia Z Jilani; Isaiah R Speight; Michael J Bojdys; Tomislav Friščić; J Fraser Stoddart; Toby L Nelson; James Mack; Renã A S Robinson; Emanuel A Waddell; Jodie L Lutkenhaus; Murrell Godfrey; Martine I Abboud; Stephen O Aderinto; Damilola Aderohunmu; Lučka Bibič; João Borges; Vy M Dong; Lori Ferrins; Fun Man Fung; Torsten John; Felicia P L Lim; Sarah L Masters; Dickson Mambwe; Pall Thordarson; Maria-Magdalena Titirici; Gabriela D Tormet-González; Miriam M Unterlass; Austin Wadle; Vivian W-W Yam; Ying-Wei Yang

doi:10.1002/anie.202009834

A Diverse View of Science to Catalyse Change

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2020 Oct 12;59(42):18306-18310. doi: 10.1002/anie.202009834. Epub 2020 Aug 17.

Authors

César A Urbina-Blanco¹, Safia Z Jilani², Isaiah R Speight³, Michael J Bojdys⁴, Tomislav Friščić⁵, J Fraser Stoddart^{6

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Affiliations

¹ Laboratory for Chemical Technology, Ghent University, Ghent, B-9052, Belgium.
² Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 20057, USA.
³ Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37235, USA.
⁴ Department of Chemistry, King's College, London (UK) and Department of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, 12489, Germany.
⁵ Department of Chemistry, McGill University, Montréal, QC, H3A 0B8, Canada.
⁶ Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA.
⁷ Institute for Molecular Design and Synthesis, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, People's Republic of China.
⁸ School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia.
⁹ Department of Chemistry, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, 74078, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45221, USA.
¹¹ Department of Chemistry, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, 35899, USA.
¹² Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA.
¹³ Department of Chemistry, The University of Mississippi, University, MS, 38677, USA.
¹⁴ Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford Chemistry Research Laboratory, Oxford, OX1 3TA, UK.
¹⁵ Department of Chemistry, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S3 7HF, UK.
¹⁶ Department of Chemistry, Covenant University, CST, Canaanland, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria.
¹⁷ School of Pharmacy, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK.
¹⁸ Department of Chemistry, CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, Aveiro, 3810-193, Portugal.
¹⁹ Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA.
²⁰ Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
²¹ Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117543, Singapore.
²² Leibniz Institute of Surface Engineering (IOM), Leipzig, 04318, Germany.
²³ School of Pharmacy, Monash University Malaysia, Selangor Darul Ehsan, 47500, Malaysia.
²⁴ School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 8140, New Zealand.
²⁵ Department of Chemistry, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Capetown, 7701, South Africa.
²⁶ School of Chemistry, The Australian Centre for Nanomedicine and the ARC Centre of Excellence in Convergent Bio-Nano Science and Technology, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia.
²⁷ Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.
²⁸ Institute of Chemistry, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, SP, 13083-970, Brazil.
²⁹ Institute of Materials Chemistry, Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, 1060, Austria.
³⁰ Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Duke University Pratt School of Engineering, Durham, NC, 27708, USA.
³¹ Institute of Molecular Functional Materials and Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China.
³² State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry, International Joint Research Laboratory of Nano-Micro Architecture Chemistry (NMAC), College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, People's Republic of China.

Abstract

Valuing diversity leads to scientific excellence, the progress of science and most importantly, it is simply the right thing to do. We can value diversity not only in words, but also in actions.

Keywords: diversity; equity; excellence; inclusion.

Publication types

Review
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Grants and funding

R35 GM127071/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States